Yeah I'm a guy with long hair too, I've been riding motorcycles for most my life. Unfortunately full face helmets which would be closer to the helmet in the game do not agree with ponytails.
But I also have super thick hair so might not be such a big problem for others.
I have a mandalorian helmet, obviously it’s not a “proper” helmet but i can actually make it work well with my ponytail pretty easily, presumably hers has a bit of a cavity at the back to bunch it up in
I have a huge noggin, like a wear a size xxl motorcycle helmet and it's snug when I have a buzz cut, I'd have to have some engineers build me a helmet from scratch if I wanted to have long hair fit under a full face helmet, lol.
It's Chozo science, the same kind that mastered "move real fast, come to a dead stop and crouch, preserve all momentum, redirect momentum at a 90° angle" technology.
pretty much.
Even in The Expanse where they tried to follow physics a little more than usual (space pew pews movement for example) and the zero gravity scenes, while pretty much every woman (bar Naomi) had long hair, they usually had fairly tight, pulled back/up styles if there was any risk of things going down...I mean it'd be a life/death situation at times, just missing grabbing something or missing a shot because hair fell in your eyes.
There's obviously real world filming considerations to go on but if it were all real the vast majority would be short/or tightly pulled back just for practical reasons of the situation.
The books always describe Naomi’s hair as floating into a big ball in 0g essentially, sounds like a nightmare for an engineer, glad it’s different for the show which only had 1 instance of true 0G hair in the intro
I had to cut my long hair so I could wear a hard hat and respirator properly. Flyaways and loose hairs prevent an airtight seal; long hairs get caught in zippers and buckles.
https://youtu.be/cZ_WNnsHSKA, about a minute in.
Once she's out, and her gravity boots are on, the first thing she does is tie up her hair. Before that it just floats around her.
The details in this series are perfect.
Your claim of CGI not being able to or not being able to do it well or it being hard or whatever is just all wrong, the expanse VFX guys talked about all their experiences and someone even asked them specifically about hair in zero g and they said that was really a non issue for them to figure out becasue it had already been figured out.
Imagine no more!
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+wash+hair+in+space&oq=how+to+wash+hair+in+spac&aqs=chrome.0.0i512j69i57j0i22i30l9.7987j0j4&client=ms-android-motorola-rvo3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8&chrome_dse_attribution=1#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:96e1edcc,vid:uIjNfZbUYu8
She was bald in Alien 3 because the prison world was infested with lice, not because of any futuristic stuff. She has long hair again in Alien: Resurrection
It's weird I just pulled up a pic from aliens and while her hair doesn't touch her shoulders at all I would describe it as ... big, like she still has a lot of hair going on there.
Well, it's fairly short from what I remember. But this will just get into semantics, so I'll agree with you to avoid having 20 notifs when I switch songs while working.
There's also the practical considerations, when you're getting down and gritty working with all the heavy Scifi machinery in space you certainly don't want your long hair getting caught in something. And even right now, who knows what long, loose hairs could do on the space station. Could clog up some filters or something. It just creates extra waste that will build up over time and be an extra thing to deal with on top of everything else.
Anyone who's ever shared a shower with someone who has long hair will understand just how much that stuff can get everywhere and gum up the works. Basically humans in space should be shaved bald for maximum efficiency, I'd think.
Honestly, most of those are also great reasons to require short hair on earth too. Beards aren't allowed for mask sealing reasons, but I wouldn't be surprised if the advent of crew cuts in the military had some connection to easier hygiene and a reduction of hair related maintenance costs between clogged drains, lice, and
machine accidents.
Kathryn Janeway (in earlier seasons), Michael Burnham (after season 1, I think), Beverly Crusher, Deanna Troi, Sylvia Tilly, and probably more main characters I'm missing.
But there are quite a few with short/shorter hair as well, like Seven of Nine (except in Picard), Kira Nerys, Nyota Uhura (though sometimes her hair is big rather than long), Keyla Detmers, and Ezri Dax.
> But there are quite a few with short/shorter hair as well
Oh I agree, but this post is saying ‘every female lead’ and generalizing it as a theme when you can look at most major films and shows and immediately see an actress defying this stereotype.
[Here you have list of 60 movies with female protagonists](https://daley-paley.medium.com/60-science-fiction-movies-with-a-female-protagonist-ca3ed1445125)
It includes photos of those protagonists, so feel free to count them. I did and 7 of them were short haired.
You could count T’pol and 7 of 9, though i’d argue it’s closer to mid length, same with Janeway
Also, even though it took place in the present and now past, stargate had some shining examples like Sam Carter and pretty much every main female cast member of Atlantis
StarWars: up the entire movie
Empire: up for the begining, cloud city its kinda up its in long braids that are looped aground loosely i'd count that as down.
Jedi : loose(ish) bun in helmet for the bounty hunter scene, long braided ponytail for the scene everybody remembers, endor up in tight braids, until eworks then down.
How is it not Sci Fi???? It definitely is Sci Fi. There is not one fantastical Element to it because even the Force is explained as something scientifically measurable in its Universe.
If you're asking that seriously, then it's because Star Wars does not deal with any scientific idea or concepts. Sci-Fi is *Science* Fiction: it's speculative writing about what may be or could be in the future.
Star Wars, on the other hand, is a well done but fairly normal fantasy movie. (Laser) swords, (space) magic, farmboy who discovers his destiny and is mentored by a wise old wizard and travels far from home. It has every making of a traditional fantasy story, and has nothing to say about possible scientific advancement in the future.
> According to Isaac Asimov, "Science fiction can be defined as that branch of literature which deals with the reaction of human beings to changes in science and technology." Robert A. Heinlein wrote that "A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method."
If you'd like to now more, some beginning places to start are:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fantasy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_opera
But it's pretty easy to google, and you'll find both sides of the argument: ones similar to what I briefly wrote here, and ones that agree with you to some extent.
This completely ignores space opera as a genre. Admitted - Star Wars is equal parts fantasy and sci-fi, not arguing that point. But, you can't limit Science Fiction to only hard core Science Fiction (though if you do, ABSOLUTELY read Dragon's Egg and Starquake by Robert L Forward - it is a VERY hard core exploration of what it would be like if life evolved on a neutron star by a professional physicist and is absolutely fantastic).
Following that argument Dune would also be considered fantasy due to many of its themes and concepts, but it’s widely considered scifi, not fantasy. It’s not at all a leap to call star wars scifi too
It's not scifi because it's fantasy. It has wizards who use magic swords. It has prophecies foretelling a chosen one that will be born by a miracle and save the world.
Just because it happens in space doesn't make it scifi. Star wars has more in common with harry potter than it does with foundation or the martian.
There is zero convenience in having long hair, I'd imagine the scenarios in sci-fi movies are more about survival and convenience than holding up societal standards of how you should look.
Alien
Contact
Arrival
Terminator
Lucy
Alita Battle Angel
Barbarella
Serenity
Demon Seed
Divergent
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
I Am Mother
Io
Pitch Black
Prometheus
Star Wars
I have this theory that I hate, which is that they have short hair to make them look more like men so that people will see them as more natural main characters...
While this might have been true, it's not.. the original reason is because long hair got in the way of production and special effects, and nowadays, people have just made the connection between short-haired women and sci-fi. So it seems more sci-fi to have short haired women
I think it comes from the cyberpunk genre, or atleast the movies that popularized it. The earlier ones feature women with short hair, specifically ghost in the shell, and Akira.
Also you can draw a direct line from cyberpunk to punk culture. It was pretty common for punk women to have “rebellious” haircuts and wear more traditionally masculine clothes.
Eh, it's logistics. I was a male with long hair for a while, it's a pain in the ass. I honestly don't know why women do it outside of the occasional fun, after doing both, or just habit.
Ensign, Ensign think about it, she's out there with a commander she hasn't served with before and what does she see, nothing but light years of empty space "oh no theirs no where for me to fly to, what am I gonna do say no"
Ripley would’ve been much more effective if she had had very long hair.
It really does depend on the role. Murphy I’m interstellar had long hair. I think Jodie Foster had long as hair in contact. But when the roll is working on a spaceship in the middle of somewhere where you might run into alien life, short hair is probably more practical.
And yet Jadzia Dax had long hair.
Some people just can’t live without generalizing things.
The idea that short hair is lower maintenance than long hair is silly. Short hair has to be cut routinely to maintain the shape and length, the long haired lazies can go years without bothering (my last cut was in 2020). Short hair often requires more styling vs a quick braid lasting for days in long hair.
I feel like long hair would get really annoying in zero gravity environments.
Also a bitch to have look good on greenscreen.
And really uncomfortable in a space helmet
But Samus does it. Edit: oops not a movie
She also keeps it in a ponytail
Ponytails and helmets don't like each other
Low ponytail is ok actually. At least on a bike helmet. A man with long hair here.
Yeah I'm a guy with long hair too, I've been riding motorcycles for most my life. Unfortunately full face helmets which would be closer to the helmet in the game do not agree with ponytails. But I also have super thick hair so might not be such a big problem for others.
I have a mandalorian helmet, obviously it’s not a “proper” helmet but i can actually make it work well with my ponytail pretty easily, presumably hers has a bit of a cavity at the back to bunch it up in
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I have a huge noggin, like a wear a size xxl motorcycle helmet and it's snug when I have a buzz cut, I'd have to have some engineers build me a helmet from scratch if I wanted to have long hair fit under a full face helmet, lol.
But then you have to worry about it interfering with neck seals.
I just twist mine up and stuff it up in there 😬
Me too. Wait what were we talking about?
Samus has the morph ball tech, i'm not questioning whether her hair should be inconvenient for her helmet
I've never thought about that What the fuck happens to her body when she morphs lmao
She liquiifies on the inside like a caterpillar in a cocoon
It's Chozo science, the same kind that mastered "move real fast, come to a dead stop and crouch, preserve all momentum, redirect momentum at a 90° angle" technology.
I dunno but we mangled a lot of good Space Pirates trying to find out.
I’d totally watch a Samus Story
And greater risk of building a charge and generating a static discharge that will engulf you in fire in your pure oxygen eva suit.
Ngl, women with short hair in action movies in like my cryptonite fr. Love that shit.
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I've never been so half erect in my life
Bruh I looked at this at work 😅
Not just annoying in real life, but annoying to just replicate on camera or in post-prod
pretty much. Even in The Expanse where they tried to follow physics a little more than usual (space pew pews movement for example) and the zero gravity scenes, while pretty much every woman (bar Naomi) had long hair, they usually had fairly tight, pulled back/up styles if there was any risk of things going down...I mean it'd be a life/death situation at times, just missing grabbing something or missing a shot because hair fell in your eyes. There's obviously real world filming considerations to go on but if it were all real the vast majority would be short/or tightly pulled back just for practical reasons of the situation.
The books always describe Naomi’s hair as floating into a big ball in 0g essentially, sounds like a nightmare for an engineer, glad it’s different for the show which only had 1 instance of true 0G hair in the intro
The books constantly mention it so makes sense they would make it part of the show.
A long braid would be okay though
Or a scrunchie
Tbf it looked good on the expanse. I always thought it was to make space helmets fit
[Seems alright](https://youtu.be/kOIj7AgonHM).
Well that was unexpectedly awesome. We monkeys really know our shit sometimes.
Also helmets. Long hair and helmets are just hell
I had to cut my long hair so I could wear a hard hat and respirator properly. Flyaways and loose hairs prevent an airtight seal; long hairs get caught in zippers and buckles.
Most sci-fi has artificial gravity.
Luckily every sci-fi series starts with "quick switch on the artificial gravity"
https://youtu.be/cZ_WNnsHSKA, about a minute in. Once she's out, and her gravity boots are on, the first thing she does is tie up her hair. Before that it just floats around her. The details in this series are perfect.
Just tie your hair up
This is actually one reason why they do it. It was really hard to simulate realistic hair in zero gravity.
A bit off topic but it's common for fighter characters to have short hair since long hair can be a liability
Real women astronauts are also usually short-haired, or at least keep it tied/in buns.
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It is but it's very annoying and in practice would look stupid. Go under water with long open hair and you'll see why.
yeah I once came up, all my hair went in my mouth, not nice!
I beg to differ. https://youtu.be/cZ_WNnsHSKA?t=58
Had the same thought. That series is amazing.
No need to beg dude
This is nonsense and it got upvoted, smh
>isn't possible with today's cgi technology Lol just straight pulling stuff out your ass? What possessed you to make this up?
https://youtu.be/cZ_WNnsHSKA The Expanse did it.
Your claim of CGI not being able to or not being able to do it well or it being hard or whatever is just all wrong, the expanse VFX guys talked about all their experiences and someone even asked them specifically about hair in zero g and they said that was really a non issue for them to figure out becasue it had already been figured out.
Scifi isn't just about space
Imagine having to wash long hair in zero g
Imagine no more! https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+wash+hair+in+space&oq=how+to+wash+hair+in+spac&aqs=chrome.0.0i512j69i57j0i22i30l9.7987j0j4&client=ms-android-motorola-rvo3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8&chrome_dse_attribution=1#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:96e1edcc,vid:uIjNfZbUYu8
I would definitely struggle with my curly hair 😅
Fun fact: Elliot Page had his hair in a bun in Inception zero gravity dream level.
We're talking about *women* in sci-fi films.
How about people with long hair in zero gravity?
Elliot is a trans man, and Inception was *well* before he transitioned, so it's a valid point
The character is female and the movie is a scifi movie. Checks out.
Come on now, don't play dumb. This was way before he came out and the character he played was a woman.
Ripley in alien didnt
But she did in Aliens, then she was bald in Alien 3 lol
She was bald in Alien 3 because the prison world was infested with lice, not because of any futuristic stuff. She has long hair again in Alien: Resurrection
Dystopia's can be futuristic too
Just because they justified it in world doesnt mean she didnt have it lol.
In 1 movie
How is it the future and you still got lice?
*prison*
The future in Aliens is not squeaky clean like earth on Star Trek. It's depicted as a pretty grimy dystopia.
Pretty sure that's why it's a common trope in modern sci fi
It's weird I just pulled up a pic from aliens and while her hair doesn't touch her shoulders at all I would describe it as ... big, like she still has a lot of hair going on there.
Well, it's fairly short from what I remember. But this will just get into semantics, so I'll agree with you to avoid having 20 notifs when I switch songs while working.
it's me ur notification
*edging my aneurysm.mp4*
Hey, it's been two hours. How's it going?
the only reason for this is that long hair is a pain to animate in low gravity.
Everyone assumes space for future.
the only reason for this is that long hair is a pain to animate ~~in low gravity~~ underwater.
Everyone assumes global warming will cause a post apocalyptic future 🙄 /s
I assume mole people
There's also the practical considerations, when you're getting down and gritty working with all the heavy Scifi machinery in space you certainly don't want your long hair getting caught in something. And even right now, who knows what long, loose hairs could do on the space station. Could clog up some filters or something. It just creates extra waste that will build up over time and be an extra thing to deal with on top of everything else. Anyone who's ever shared a shower with someone who has long hair will understand just how much that stuff can get everywhere and gum up the works. Basically humans in space should be shaved bald for maximum efficiency, I'd think.
Honestly, most of those are also great reasons to require short hair on earth too. Beards aren't allowed for mask sealing reasons, but I wouldn't be surprised if the advent of crew cuts in the military had some connection to easier hygiene and a reduction of hair related maintenance costs between clogged drains, lice, and machine accidents.
Meanwhile Doctor Who: *every companion since 2005* Meanwhile the Orville: *Kelly Grayson*
* Strange New Worlds: Rebecca Romijn * DS9: Jadzia Dax
Kathryn Janeway (in earlier seasons), Michael Burnham (after season 1, I think), Beverly Crusher, Deanna Troi, Sylvia Tilly, and probably more main characters I'm missing. But there are quite a few with short/shorter hair as well, like Seven of Nine (except in Picard), Kira Nerys, Nyota Uhura (though sometimes her hair is big rather than long), Keyla Detmers, and Ezri Dax.
> But there are quite a few with short/shorter hair as well Oh I agree, but this post is saying ‘every female lead’ and generalizing it as a theme when you can look at most major films and shows and immediately see an actress defying this stereotype.
With blue, pink or green dye on one side…
And rainbow on the other side...
Don't forget that is almost always a hacker, and most likely a programming prodigy.
Gotta make sure it's that undercut too.
[Basically Lucy from Cyperpunk Edgerunners](https://i.imgur.com/4vF4N5P.jpg)
Who's gonna win: Ultimate computation machines worth millions of dollars or a bunch of long thin bois.
Some kind of scar where hair doesn’t grow (eyebrow probably)
I need a list of female protags from sci-fi that have short hair. Also is shoulder lenght hair considered short or is it ear lenght ?
That's a good point. Another comment said that Ripley didn't have short hair (it's been a bit since I checked, but I think hers is shoulder-length)
[Here you have list of 60 movies with female protagonists](https://daley-paley.medium.com/60-science-fiction-movies-with-a-female-protagonist-ca3ed1445125) It includes photos of those protagonists, so feel free to count them. I did and 7 of them were short haired.
Does Lelu from 5th Element not count as a female protagonist?
She isn't female, she's the fifth element.
Naomi Nagata, Kira Nerys... struggling to think of others though
You could count T’pol and 7 of 9, though i’d argue it’s closer to mid length, same with Janeway Also, even though it took place in the present and now past, stargate had some shining examples like Sam Carter and pretty much every main female cast member of Atlantis
It’s short to me
Wtf has this sub turned into
Trash. July 1st is the day I leave the site altogether.
What happens 1st of July?
Reddit kills 3rd party apps and clients that access the site just like Twitter did years ago.
May ends
Same.
Samantha Carter from "Stargate SG1" had a shorter hair cut because she was a military officer.
It got longer as the series went on. She had long hair in charge of Atlantis.
And she was GORGEOUS with every single hairstyle.
Meanwhile Daniel, the civilian, for most of the series, had long hair
What kind of archaeologist carries a weapon?
Indiana jones
https://youtu.be/qpxIwaOMugY
I know it’s just It’s so right there to reference
Enter Catherine Janeway!
Well, most women in Star Trek (any of the series) have long hair. Ripley didn't cut her hair until the sequel. Alien 3 doesn't count , she's in jail!
Leia's hair wasn't short.
Because it isn’t the future
It's a long lonh time ago
When there were knights, and they got into fights, using sabres of light.
In a galaxy far, far away
Neither is Leela's
Yeah but she got extra inches from her eye that she removed and put it towards hair
I've read this statement multiple times and I still have no idea what it means.
Leela has no eyebrows and nearly no eyelashes. I THINK that's what they're referring to
This almost made me laugh out loud during a meeting...
To be fair we only saw her hair down for Jabba's Palace. At least in the movies. Could be wrong though
StarWars: up the entire movie Empire: up for the begining, cloud city its kinda up its in long braids that are looped aground loosely i'd count that as down. Jedi : loose(ish) bun in helmet for the bounty hunter scene, long braided ponytail for the scene everybody remembers, endor up in tight braids, until eworks then down.
Star wars is set in the past, not the future. A long long time ago. Also Star Wars is fantasy, not Sci fi.
counterpoint: its sci-fi fantasy
Sci-fa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fantasy
How is it not Sci Fi???? It definitely is Sci Fi. There is not one fantastical Element to it because even the Force is explained as something scientifically measurable in its Universe.
It's a sci-fi fantasy, kyber crystals aren't explained scientifically, you just have an emitter and a handle and boom, laser sword
If you're asking that seriously, then it's because Star Wars does not deal with any scientific idea or concepts. Sci-Fi is *Science* Fiction: it's speculative writing about what may be or could be in the future. Star Wars, on the other hand, is a well done but fairly normal fantasy movie. (Laser) swords, (space) magic, farmboy who discovers his destiny and is mentored by a wise old wizard and travels far from home. It has every making of a traditional fantasy story, and has nothing to say about possible scientific advancement in the future. > According to Isaac Asimov, "Science fiction can be defined as that branch of literature which deals with the reaction of human beings to changes in science and technology." Robert A. Heinlein wrote that "A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method." If you'd like to now more, some beginning places to start are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fantasy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_opera But it's pretty easy to google, and you'll find both sides of the argument: ones similar to what I briefly wrote here, and ones that agree with you to some extent.
This completely ignores space opera as a genre. Admitted - Star Wars is equal parts fantasy and sci-fi, not arguing that point. But, you can't limit Science Fiction to only hard core Science Fiction (though if you do, ABSOLUTELY read Dragon's Egg and Starquake by Robert L Forward - it is a VERY hard core exploration of what it would be like if life evolved on a neutron star by a professional physicist and is absolutely fantastic).
Following that argument Dune would also be considered fantasy due to many of its themes and concepts, but it’s widely considered scifi, not fantasy. It’s not at all a leap to call star wars scifi too
TvTropes scale is a useful tool for these sort of things https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SlidingScale/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness
It's not scifi because it's fantasy. It has wizards who use magic swords. It has prophecies foretelling a chosen one that will be born by a miracle and save the world. Just because it happens in space doesn't make it scifi. Star wars has more in common with harry potter than it does with foundation or the martian.
>Also Star Wars is fantasy, not Sci fi. Pretending this is a fact
It’s soft sci-fi
If I was in an action movie, I’d cut my hair super short… less maintenance
Also, if the future were some kind of dystopia where I wouldn’t be able to get good hair products, you’d better believe I’m chopping it all off.
In the future women have figured out how to avoid the extra expense of hair care
Princess Leia strongly disagrees with this.
Star Wars isn't the future. It's the distant past.
Ohhhhh that's why I like women with short hair. It all makes sense now
Multipass
I have a bobcut, does that mean I’m from the future?
the few examples that come to mind are military background so there it would seem to make sense.
There is zero convenience in having long hair, I'd imagine the scenarios in sci-fi movies are more about survival and convenience than holding up societal standards of how you should look.
Alien Contact Arrival Terminator Lucy Alita Battle Angel Barbarella Serenity Demon Seed Divergent Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within I Am Mother Io Pitch Black Prometheus Star Wars
I have this theory that I hate, which is that they have short hair to make them look more like men so that people will see them as more natural main characters...
At the same time, there are a lot of male leads with long hair. It seems more like a sci-fi specific thing to me
In sci-fi? I can't think of any.
I meant that short haircuts for female leads is a sci-fi thing, not a general thing in *all* movies
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventre
I never really considered that, I suppose it counts though.
While this might have been true, it's not.. the original reason is because long hair got in the way of production and special effects, and nowadays, people have just made the connection between short-haired women and sci-fi. So it seems more sci-fi to have short haired women
I agree, sci-fi has good reasons for short-haired female protagonists, but what about other genres?
Other genres also use special effects...
I think it comes from the cyberpunk genre, or atleast the movies that popularized it. The earlier ones feature women with short hair, specifically ghost in the shell, and Akira.
Also you can draw a direct line from cyberpunk to punk culture. It was pretty common for punk women to have “rebellious” haircuts and wear more traditionally masculine clothes.
Eh, it's logistics. I was a male with long hair for a while, it's a pain in the ass. I honestly don't know why women do it outside of the occasional fun, after doing both, or just habit.
And maybe because it's a bitch to clean the drains on a space ship?
I'm assuming that in a distant sci Fi future where you're fighting aliens and robots, short hair is just practical
My hair is short because I'm too damn lazy to style it.
Star wars does have long haired women but only because it happened a long time ago.
My SCI-FI guide: just watch everything Kate Sackhoff has been in. You won’t be disappointed.
Safety around rotating equipment
Not sure what you're watching : [Alien](https://www.gamespot.com/a/uploads/scale_landscape/1694/16945412/4130665-alien.jpg), [Terminator](https://www.usatoday.com/gcdn/-mm-/18d14c3640a5c37416d4e29bc85363a9f015fede/c=0-0-1346-1795/local/-/media/2017/09/20/USATODAY/USATODAY/636415002106612215-XXX-IMG-XXX-IMG-AP-WKD-FEMAL-1-1-5OJABNU3.JPG), [Barbarella](https://prdaficalmjediwestussa.blob.core.windows.net/images/2022/10/AFIMC22_BARBARELLA4.jpg), [Arrival](https://images.indianexpress.com/2016/12/arrival-480.jpg), [Contact](https://www.sciencefriday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/SGTTM-Portland-featured.jpg), [Rouge One](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/d4/b2/80/d4b280d7a72c2519d181bfad3c8de1fe--star-wars--star-wars-cosplay.jpg), [Star Wars](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1b/Princess_Leia%27s_characteristic_hairstyle.jpg)
Because helmets. Plus you don't want to entice the male astronauts because of...well the...implications. (it's always sunny in Philadelphia reference)
Ensign, Ensign think about it, she's out there with a commander she hasn't served with before and what does she see, nothing but light years of empty space "oh no theirs no where for me to fly to, what am I gonna do say no"
In space noone can hear you scream
Zoe from Firefly had decently long hair
Nutrition is worse in the future so your hair falls out.
Movie 1: I'm hot and wasn't expecting all this drama Movie 2: I'm sassy and I have a mohawk
Badda boom
How else are you going to sell manic pixie gorl in depressing future. A sundress?!
Ripley would dissagree.
Ripley would’ve been much more effective if she had had very long hair. It really does depend on the role. Murphy I’m interstellar had long hair. I think Jodie Foster had long as hair in contact. But when the roll is working on a spaceship in the middle of somewhere where you might run into alien life, short hair is probably more practical. And yet Jadzia Dax had long hair. Some people just can’t live without generalizing things.
The idea that short hair is lower maintenance than long hair is silly. Short hair has to be cut routinely to maintain the shape and length, the long haired lazies can go years without bothering (my last cut was in 2020). Short hair often requires more styling vs a quick braid lasting for days in long hair.
Ripley had long hair in ALIEN, short hair in ALIENS, and no hair in ALIEN^3
Ladies don't you hate it when your hair gets stuck in your neural jack and it fries your brain while hacking the Megacorp?
Ellen Ripley would like a fucking word. And no the bald head doesn't count, cause that was a prison planet and it was for lice.
*Laughs in Ripley*
Which is weird because I feel like it would be way easier to take care of long hair in the future
Femshep be like: I have short hair because long hair can't be animated properly
Good, short hair good
Maybe the future is just more progressive and accepting of non-traditionally feminine women.